Security Advisory

CVE-2006-1859

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2006-05-12 01:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 17:27:29
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

Memory leak in __setlease in fs/locks.c in Linux kernel before 2.6.16.16 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via unspecified actions related to an "uninitialised return value," aka "slab leak."